NYTimes on Norway massacre: We told you conservatives were dangerous!

The Blaze ^ | July 25, 2011 | Meredith Jessup

[Free ThinkerNY]

Shortly after Anders Behring Breivik carried out his one-man killing spree of his fellow countrymen Friday, the media began to speculate about the killer’s possible motivations. The terrorist’s disturbing “manifesto” (much of it borrowed from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski) prescribed a race-based revolution across Europe against what he considered the elite, “multiculturalists” and “enablers of Islamization.”

To the New York Times, this seething hatred all apparently sounded familiar:

[Breivik's] manifesto, which denounced Norwegian politicians as failing to defend the country from Islamic influence, quoted Robert Spencer, who operates the Jihad Watch Web site, 64 times, and cited other Western writers who shared his view that Muslim immigrants pose a grave danger to Western culture.

More broadly, the mass killings in Norway, with their echo of the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City by an antigovernment militant, have focused new attention around the world on the subculture of anti-Muslim bloggers and right-wing activists and renewed a debate over the focus of counterterrorism efforts.

Al Jazeera went so far as to blame “hate-monger” Glenn Beck, a “peddler of faith” apparently “cut from the same rotten cloth” as Breivik and 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta.

The Times also noted that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was right to warn against “domestic radicals,” in the United States:

In the United States, critics have asserted that the intense spotlight on the threat from Islamic militants has unfairly vilified Muslim Americans while dangerously playing down the threat of attacks from other domestic radicals. The author of a 2009 Department of Homeland Security report on right-wing extremism withdrawn by the department after criticism from conservatives repeated on Sunday his claim that the department had tilted too heavily toward the threat from Islamic militants.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Rev. Jim Jones, Jonestown Massacre, the Peoples’ Temple.

A marxist nut in Christian-clergy garb. Sounds like some of today’s so-called Christian leftists such as Jim Wallis, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

[combat_boots]

Your birthday?

[cripplecreek]

September 12th is the official kickoff date of GBTV. That day Glenn will start a new 2 hour show on his network.

[papertyger]

Never underestimate the ability of the NYT to “Wellstone” a tragedy.

[combat_boots]

I thought you meant yesterday, CC.

Already on board with GBTV. Have been since the day it was announced.

Fox is just about gonesville for me anyway. Bret Baier, Cavuto, sometimes a little Krauthammer and/or some BOR schticks.

I even called Fox to register a complaint about their left-leaning ways. About as useful as calling the WH about the EPA abuses, I think. Or as valued as Peter Cook’s line in “Frog and Peach,” when speaking about WWII and the character’s opposition to it: “Well, I wrote a letter.”